I am a software development manager residing in Noida, India. My primary interest is mathematics. Readers are expected to see a reasonable amount of mathematical content (although I will try to simplify things a little bit so as to make it more accessible to people).

My day job requires me to handle projects done mostly in C/C++ and I have been doing so for more than 13 years. My area of expertise includes multimedia
technologies on Google's Android platform. I am also familiar with various video compression formats like MPEG-4, H.264, VC1, VP8, VP9 and HEVC.

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Dear Paramanand,I am happy to see your blog posts. I am also a math enthusiast though not very skillful at it. I happen to work in the same company as yours in the Bangalore multimedia team. I stumbled across your blog through my colleague Ganesh’s reference.I am happy to find a math enthusiast amongst the software engineers of today. Keep up the good work and I look forward to read your posts in the future.

Sir I respect your view I am a student preparing for iit and I live in hyderabad first I thought that. You are from hyderabad and I had a idea of asking you to teach me calculus but unfortunately I found that you are in noida could you please tell me how to learn calculus in an effective way and use it effectively and please I requeat you to suggest a teacher in hyd or a good book and please also try to email me ragarding calculus and learning calculus please

Hello Rajashekhar,I will not be able to help you with any tutor, but surely I can advise you a good book to read. Please get a copy of “A Course of Pure Mathematics” by G. H. Hardy and read it completely. By “read it” I mean read it and not start solving problems. If you manage to understand this book completely you will never have issues in calculus.

Hi This is K.Chandrasekran from Chennai. I am working as Assist.Professor in mathematics in Engineering college, myself and our friends are started working in modular equations for doctoral degree. your Notes are simple for understanding the concepts for beginners. I like you very much because even though your a software engineer, doing mathematics problems problems and posting in blogs.

Is it possible to get one copy of the book “A Course of Pure Mathematics” by G. H. Hardy ” and need some more help regarding Latex software.

Hardy’s book is at an elementary level covering calculus concepts in a rigourous manner. It should be available online if you search enough. Unfortunately the printed form is difficult and costly to obtain (need to order from Amazon). It can also be available in some university library.

About learning latex, the best is start using this fabulous software. Maybe you can start a blog on wordpress and try to use latex. Lot of tutorials are available online. A book “Math into Latex” is also very helpful.

Hello Paramanand,I found your notes on elliptic integrals very interesting and clear.To make it easier to navigate through your notes, I was wondering if there is a way of having a start page with an index to all your notes.Thanks,michele

Thanks for the suggestion. I will see what I can do, but currently I don’t have access to modification of template or CSS in WordPress. I am planning to move to http://paramanands.blogspot.com/ where I have full control on the CSS and templates.

I saw only later that you have moved already some of the notes.On an unrelated subject: would (a variation of) the Landen’s transformation work also for integrals with integrand of the type $\displaystyle \int(1-k^{2}\sin^{2}\phi)^{-n-1/2}\,d\phi$?

Hello Michele,I think the integral you are asking belongs to third type of elliptic integrals. There are many books available to treat this subject. If I get time to deal with this topic, I will definitely put on the blog.

I am an engineering undergraduate in third year at BITS Pilani who spends all his time doing mathematics. I wish to pursue Masters in Mathematics. I can somehow relate to you. I blog too- cozilikethinking.blogspot.com

I feel had you too made the decision to switch to mathematics in place of doing a job, you'd have been happier. Or not. But it was really good reading your blog.

I am glad that you can "somehow relate to me" by just reading my blog. Just to satisfy your curiosity the decision to go for software job was based on financial concerns. But luckily mathematics is such a subject which can be studied without the need of any establishment like schools and universities (after a certain stage).

The fact that you made an effort to read my blog and also to comment on it gives me great satisfaction and that is enough reason to be happy.

It is an accepted good behavior not to share personal information like mobile number online. However there are many other equally powerful channels of communication available online. You can ask me any information about this blog (or any other stuff related to mathematics) via comments to this blog. Since the comments here are moderated you can perhaps give your email in comments so that I can contact you (and this comment containing your email will not be published here).

Your blog is very good.(Though I do not know enough math to understand the content, but can see the beauty of math.)

This is the second blog that I bookmarked. (I bookmark seriously)I also loved the design of your blog.

Here are some questions related to blog:1. How did you create the design? I mean this is not a template. (I'm noob)2. How do you write your content? As you also provide PDF version, so I'm asking do you write it in blogger editor or first write in some software and then paste into blogger editor?

Thanks for bookmarking this blog. I am glad that someone likes it even if he does not yet understand all the content here.

The design of the blog is based on an existing template and some modifications in the script. It was done a long time ago so I don't remember the exact details.

I exclusively use the blogger editor (HTML mode) to type all my content and once it is published I then print the webpage into PDF and give a link to this PDF in the blog post. The PDF link is designed so that it is not visible in print preview.

Parmanand, Great blog! You are obviously a very smart guy. I am just an interloper between businesses (happily unemployed!) and spending all my time in doing everything I could not do when I was under pressure getting through B.Tech (IIT KGP) and then building my career .. so spending time reading history and mathematics ... :) Thanks for your great work .. (curious, are you IIT alum?)

Dear Sir, I stumbled upon your solution to the below mentioned problem . Due to certain technical issues I couldnt comment my doubts in the platform. Please help me with this doubt."α,β are roots t2−t−1=0 and hence we can write 1−x−x2=(1−αx)(1−βx)" Could you please explain how this can be written?https://math.stackexchange.com/a/1115045/404417

@AdithyaYou can observe that if $\alpha, \beta$ are roots of $t^{2}-t-1=0$ then we have $$t^{2}-t-1=(t-\alpha)(t-\beta)$$ and putting $t=1/x$ (and multiplying the equation by $x^{2}$) we get $$1-x-x^{2}=(1-\alpha x) (1-\beta x) $$ so maybe it was not so obvious but at the same time not too difficult either.